Tagged: diet

The Link Between Diet & the Development of Some Diseases

How does diet affect certain disease processes? Can our diet choices have an effect on our personal health risk outcomes? Many factors influence the development of diseases like cancer. Over […]

Continue Reading

Home Grown and Fabulously Fresh

Whether you want to become more self-sufficient or just enjoy being able to really “make a meal from scratch,” growing an edible garden is something a lot of people are digging […]

Continue Reading

The Potential Benefits of Adding Mindfulness to Your Life

The practice of mindfulness or mind-mapping has actually been around for many years. Individuals use it at home and at the office. They use the mindfulness practice in clubs and […]

Continue Reading

Why You Pretty Much Have to be a Tightrope Walker to Lose Weight

Think of yourself as a tightrope walker… You are balancing precariously on that rope, suspended in midair, placing one foot in front of the other. This is the tightrope you walk as […]

Continue Reading

The Truth About Dietary Myths: I eat well most of the time, so why am I not losing weight?

Weight loss can certainly have its ups and downs. We start the week with good intentions; pulling out the fresh vegetables and cutting them up for lunch. We try new breakfast […]

Continue Reading

The Truth About Dietary Myths: Weekend splurges & cheat days

Can I eat a careful diet during the week, and do what I want on the weekend? As in, one or two free days per week?! This has come up often and […]

Continue Reading

The Truth About Dietary Myths: Does drinking water help you lose weight?

My mother used to tell me that she was going to drink a lot of water on a daily basis, so that she could lose some weight that week. She […]

Continue Reading

The Truth About Dietary Myths: Fitness vs a Good Diet

Do Athletes & Fitness Enthusiasts Need to Monitor Food Intake? As spoken by many an active fitness enthusiast: “Oh, I don’t really worry about what I eat because I work […]

Continue Reading

The Truth About Dietary Myths: Will soda spark your appetite for sweets?!

“Will drinking soda make you crave more food, especially sugary foods?” It is a question I get asked often; and many people believe it is true. Researchers and others at […]

Continue Reading

Comparing Popular American Diets

It seems that Americans are either continuing to have diets that are not the healthiest or they are making concerted efforts to eat as healthy a diet as possible. Thus […]

Continue Reading